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Welfare Economics, Development Economics

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Dr Mukhopadhaya holds a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales. His research interests are in Applied Welfare Economics, Applied Policy Analysis, Higher Education and Manpower, Trade and Economics of Law. Dr Mukhopadhaya's publications include three books, 15 book chapters, and more than 30 academic papers in international refereed journals on theoretical and empirical economics. These journals include Research on Economic Inequality, Applied Economics, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of Asian Economics, Asian Economic Journal, Economic Record, Journal of Contemporary Asia, The Developing Economies, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Netherland Journal of Law, International Journal of Educational Development. His consultancy clients include UNESCO, the World Bank, and the World Health Organisation.

Professional Certifications:

Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management with National Institute of Information Technology

"More Health for Money" in Vietnam: Does Operational Cost or Running Cost of Health Institutions Help Budgeting for More Services and Improve the Health of the population? Journal of Health Care Finance, Fall 2015, 182-200 (with Azzam, O and Patel, C.)

"Are Women Less EfÃ¯¬Âcient In Converting Microcredit Into Functionings? Evidence from Bangladesh", European Journal of Development Research advance 26(5), 2014, pp 725-742; doi:10.1057/ejdr.2013.57

"Women as marginal workers in informal mining and quarrying, India: A preliminary analysis", Forthcoming, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, advance
online publication 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2014.880287 [Print
version is expected to be out in June 2014] (with K. Lahiri-Dutt).

Book Review: Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong, Journal of Income Distribution 22(1):115-119 · March 2013

"The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), Water and human rights from the perspective of developing countries", Netherlands International Law Review, LVIII: 43-75, 2011 (jointly with S. Alam and D. Randle).

"The Changing Pattern of Sources of Income and its Impact on Inequality: The Method and its Application in Australia, 1975-1994", Economic Record, September, Vol 77, No 238, 2001, 242-251 (jointly with N. Podder).

"Demographics, Incomes and Development Issues Amongst Indians in Singapore", in K. Kesavpany, A. Mani and P. Ramasamy (eds), Rising India and Indian Communities in East Asia, Institute of South East Asian Studies: Singapore, 2008 (jointly with G. Shantakumar).

"A Generalized Social Welfare Function and its Disaggregation by Components of Income: The Method and Application",Research on Economic Inequality, 2003, Vol 9, 245-264.

"Equity, Efficiency and Social Welfare: An Application of Generalised Lorenz Dominance to New Zealand Income Data",Research on Income Inequality, 2003, Vol 9, 265-289 (with S. Chatteerjee and N. Podder).

"Impact of the Economic Crisis on Higher Education in Singapore", in Impact of the Economic Crisis on Higher Education in East Asia: Country Experiences, (ed.) N.V. Varghese, International Institute of Educational Planning, UNESCO: Paris, 2002, 157-181 (jointly with G. Shantakumar).

"Estimation and Decomposition of Social Welfare Function by Population Subgroup", Advances in Econometrics, Vol 8: 87-102, 1999. (jointly with N. Podder).

"National innovation policies, innovation actors and firm innovation performance in India: Evidence from count data estimation methods", 27-29 August, 2015 at Research on Innovation Networks (RNI) conference on "Innovation and R&D policies: Crossroads between the North and the South" at University of Picardie Jules Verne, Paris, France. (with S. Kolluru and C. Heaton)

Labour Law Reform to Maintain the Social and Economic Sustainability in China: An Analysis from the Perspective of Income Distribution, 4th East Asian Law and Society Conference, EALS Tokyo at Waseda University, Japan, August 4-6, 2015 (with K. Chan)

"The Role of Psychological Altruism in Social Capital and Multidimensional Well-being", Conference on Public Happiness, St. Thomas Aquinas University, Largo Angelicum 1, Rome, Italy, 4-5 June 2013 (with S. Triandaru and E.Franks,)

"Income Inequality Trend in China", China Income Distribution in the New Era Conference at Jinguo Garden Hotel, Beijing 6-7 January 2012, Organized by: Institute of Population and Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"Multidimensional Poverty and Efficiency of Government and NGOs in Rural Bangladesh", 4th Poverty and Social Protection Conference (organized by Tomorrow People Organization), Bangkok, Thailand, March 1-3, 2011 (with T. Chowdhury).

"Gender Bias of Government Agencies and NGOs in the Provision of Services to the Rural Poor in Bangladesh", 12th International Conference of East Asian Economic Association, October 2-3, 2010; Seoul, South Korea (with T. Chowdhury).

"Taxation for environmental efficiency and issues of income distribution", National University of Singapore and University of Tokyo Joint Workshop, to be presented at National University of Singapore, 26-27 November, 2002 (jointly with Dodo Thampapillai).

"Generalized Social Welfare Function and its Disaggregation", The Conference on Welfare and Labour Market in EU, Marseille, France, October 25-26, 2002.

"Financial Crisis in Southeast Asia and its effects on the Social Sectors", International Conference of Economic Recovery and Reform, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 28-29 October, 2002

"Crisis, Social Sector and Income Distribution in some SE Asian Countries", Second workshop on Institutional Change in Southeast Asia in the Wake of Asian Crisis organized by Stockholm School of Economics and Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 10-11 June 2002, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

"Did Economic Crisis affect Higher Education in Singapore", in the joint workshop organized by University of Nottingham, UK and Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 4-5 April 2002, National University of Singapore.

"Crisis, Social Sector and Income Distribution in some S.E. Asian Countries", First workshop on Institutional Change in Southeast Asia in the Wake of Asian Crisis organized by Stockholm School of Economics and Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 23-24 November, 2001, National University of Singapore.

"Social Welfare Function: A Non-Paretian Form and its Disaggregation", 16th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 29 - September 1, 2001, Lausanne, Switzerland.

"A Generalized Social Evaluation Function and its Disaggregation by Components of Income: The Method and Application", Far Eastern Econometric Conference, July 20-22, 2001, Kobe, Japan.

Moderator, Discussant: Wage and Labour Panel of the conference on Regulation, De-regulation and Re-regulation in Globalizing Asia, Singapore, March, 2004; Conference on Welfare and Labour Market in EU, Marseille, France, October, 2002; National University of Singapore and University of Tokyo Joint Workshop, at National University of Singapore, 26-27 November, 2002.

PhD Thesis examined: 10

Member of the editorial board of Asia Africa Journal of Economics and Econometrics.

Research Collaboration: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; Nottingham School of Economics, UK; Indian Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India; World Health Organization, Geneva